10 Bible Movies Weirder Than Noah

Darren Aronofsky's Noah, which is reviewed today on Escape to The Movies, breaks with recent Hollywood tradition in approaching Biblical adaptation with equal parts apocryphal strangeness and bold modernist revisionism. But while Noah may look revolutionary next to bland recent offerings like Son of God, its offbeat treatment of Holy Writ places it squarely in a storied tradition of cinematic offerings that looked for spectacle in Scripture.

Join me as I show you the 10 films that retold Biblical stories in the strangest way possible.